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Month: October 2024
Imminent Gate Crashers
Sasha Stone and I are hastily assembling an award-season spitball forum, callled GATE CRASHERS. It’s kind of an anti-Gold Derby thang. Only journos and filmmakers of character, no whores or corporate ass-kissers, no raising damp fingers to the wind.
We’ll have the participation of least three or four anonymous filmmakers plus Chris Gore, Jeff Sneider, Jordan Ruimy, myself, Sasha, Bill McCuddy, Ed Douglas, and one or two more. 10 or 12 people thus far. We’re hoping to land at least two or three women of consequence besides Sasha.
Sneider will post a special link in advance with each updated posting. Ruimy will also post the chart.
Participants will just have to fill out a dropdown menu form with their gut predictions every two weeks. They won’t have to have seen every last film — they can spitball, fantasize and instinctually project like the Gold Derby members do. We’d all be taking it one step at a time.
The great Mark Frenden is assembling a King Kong logo as we speak.
We’re looking to get rolling on this fairly soon.
All hail Payal Kapadia’s All We Inagine As Light!
No More Undermining
The 2024 woke manual says that characters in mainstream films aren’t allowed to point to negative consequences due to weight issues. Because there are no negative consequences from same — sporting a bulky bod is a lifestyle choice, not a health issue. Such judgments were allowed 29 years ago when Crimson Tide was released, but no longer. Understood?
When It Comes To The George Washington Bridge
…I am a confirmed, committed, dyed-in-the-wool upper level guy. I like to glance at the big blue-white sky and the deep blue Hudson as I’m crossing over. The lower level feels too confining.
How Can Craig Be Denied A Best Actor Oscar Nom?
Friendo who attended last night’s CAA screening of Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig ‘s Queer:
“Unless the movie itself doesn’t accumulate sufficient enthusiasm (it’s a pungent, sensual trip movie and anything but bland), it will be hard not to nominate Daniel Craig‘s emotionally vulnerable tour de force performance.”
It’s obviously historical — James Bond going homo. The bravery alone. The audacity.HE will be seeing Queer at the NYFF on Monday, 10.7.
In a post-screening discussion with a Vanity Fair guy whose name escapes, Craig said he’d spent a year getting his mind “wrapped up into the character.”
HE to friendo: “Who was the guy sitting in front of you with the big fat head?”
If Republicans Had Nominated A Sensible, Anti-Woke, Well-Educated, Well-Tailored Centrist
…I would probably be inclined to vote for him/her over Kamala Harris. But of course they haven’t. They’ve nominated an animal, and that’s why standing by Kamala is a necessity.
Don’t Be Cruel
If you go to movies hoping for quaalude highs, Joker: Folie a Deux is definitely not a Lemmon 714. But you have to respect it. Really–it’s anything but a throwaway.
Huge Discovery for Times Square Marquee Hounds
In all my years of searching for tantalizing color snaps of Times Square marquees from the ’40s, ’50s and 60s, I’d never once glimpsed a shot of The Guns of Navarone marquee at the Criterion (B’way at 44th). But I did this morning. Hat tip to GorillsaDontBlog.
The Carl Foreman-J. Lee Thompson pic was press previewed on 5.16.61 (the screening curiously began at 8:30 pm). It opened at the Criterion on 6.23.61 and lasted through the summer.
Nail-Bitten, Wee-Hour, “Save Us, Steve Kornacki!” Finale
Gung-ho, super-confident progressive team captain Michael Moore is predicting a decisive loss for Donald Trump on Tuesday, 11.5. He’s saying, in fact, that Trump is “toast.”
But in what universe is a Kamala Harris 270 electoral vote tally over 268 for The Beast…in what realm is this not an all-time squeaker?
